Bermuda Awarded GPPC 2009

The Business Technology Division of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce (URL) on November 4, 2007 was selected to host the 2009 Global Public Policy Conference (GPPC 2009). With the theme "Business Technology: An Enabler in Your Economy", the event is tentatively scheduled to take place at the Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda on November 1-3, 2009 and will coincide with the 400th Anniversary of the first Bermudan settlements. In cooperation with the Bermudan Ministry of the Environment, Telecommunications and E-Commerce, the Business Technology Division will host some 500 senior ICT executives, government officials and policy-makers from more than 50 countries. See the November 4 press release here. See also a November 19 article in The Royal Gazette with coverage from the November 6 GPPC transfer ceremony in Cairo, Egypt [Link; PDF].